| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: The tragedy was enacted in the full glare of the street lights on the corner
of Polk Street and Clermont Avenue. Our society is indeed unstable when the
custodians of its peace are thus openly and wantonly shot down. The police
have so far been unable to obtain the slightest clue.
Barely had he finished this when the police arrived--the Inspector himself and
two of his keenest sleuths. Alarm sat upon their faces, and it was plain that
they were seriously perturbed. Though the facts were so few and simple, we
talked long, going over the affair again and again. When the Inspector went
away, he confidently assured us that everything would soon be straightened out
and the assassins run to earth. In the meantime he thought it well to detail
guards for the protection of Mr. Hale and myself, and several more to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: ages, and even to philosophers, in the whole phenomenon of the
saint, it is undoubtedly the appearance of the miraculous
therein--namely, the immediate SUCCESSION OF OPPOSITES, of states
of the soul regarded as morally antithetical: it was believed
here to be self-evident that a "bad man" was all at once turned
into a "saint," a good man. The hitherto existing psychology was
wrecked at this point, is it not possible it may have happened
principally because psychology had placed itself under the
dominion of morals, because it BELIEVED in oppositions of moral
values, and saw, read, and INTERPRETED these oppositions into the
text and facts of the case? What? "Miracle" only an error of
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: not for a moment suppose that uncultivated people are merely
indifferent to high and noble qualities. They hate them malignantly.
At best, such qualities are like rare and beautiful birds: when they
appear the whole country takes down its guns; but the birds receive
the statuary tribute of having their corpses stuffed.
And it really all comes from the habit of preventing children from
being troublesome. You are so careful of your boy's morals, knowing
how troublesome they may be, that you keep him away from the Venus of
Milo only to find him in the arms of the scullery maid or someone much
worse. You decide that the Hermes of Praxiteles and Wagner's Tristan
are not suited for young girls; and your daughter marries somebody
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